[Developers] Write access from Acre apps

Jim Pick jim at jimpick.com
Mon Nov 17 21:55:53 UTC 2008


Hi,

I've been playing around with Acre.  Very cool!

I'm interested in a way to write little editing utilities to make it 
more efficient to add/edit large sets of data, by multiple users.

Are there any plans for exposing write access to Acre apps?  On the 
wiki, I see a acre.freebase.MqlRead, but no acre.freebase.MqlWrite.

Actually, there does seem to be an API method if you search for it.  I 
tried to use it, but it failed due to an authentication failure.  Not a 
big surprise there, as I can see how it might be a bit dangerous if any 
app could just write anything as the logged-in user that happened to 
navigate to it.

I know I can use the mqlwrite service, and request users names and 
passwords.  That's the classic "password anti-pattern" however (like 
twitterank).  I do see some references to OAuth here and there, eg.

http://oauth.stefanomazzocchi.user.dev.freebaseapps.com/

I guess that's going to be the solution?

Cheers,

  - Jim




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